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During my entire professional career as a software engineer (a little over 20 years!)

I’ve been using LLMs a lot lately, and in the last few weeks have been intentionally exploring their utility in a software engineering context.

The ongoing debate within the Democratic party about voting for this week’s budget package is a fascinating case study to me - I think it may demonstrate a disagreement on the philosophy of change, and was inspiration for me to try to write some thoughts…

This election year, there are a bunch of things on my local ballot in San Bernardino County, which is where Joshua Tree is, that were a challenge for me to understand.

It seems to me that a specific definition of “redpilling” would be something like: A mediocre person in a competitive field consumes social media or news that focuses their attention on a cherry-picked set of successes by people who are statistical anomal…

Background Recently I was working on the archival editor (https://editor.archival.dev), which is an application in which all the business logic happens in a Rust library.

Recently when working on Archival, I found myself needing to check the DNS records of a domain.

SBF story arc is interesting and enlightening, despite being extremely depressing.

In software, engineers are sometimes referred to as "10xers" - implying that they're capable of producing 10x the productivity of a comparable person.

I was reading a delightful Joel Spolsky article that was posted to my company Slack today - it was originally published in 2001, and I had read it many years ago.

Throughout my career, I've seen a lot of old code.

Modern labor, as described by employers, is a paradox.

What is the simplest & cheapest CMS possible?

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[originally published on Medium in 2016] This halloween we decided to stick with pop culture and try a Stranger things costume.